Ryan Patterson
Conferences/Symposiums
18th December 2015: | ‘These weapons can never be the arms of other than wealthy and intelligent nations’: The Mitrailleur and Small War doctrine in British military culture, 1869-75.Paper presented at the Institute of Historical Research Seminar Series on War, Society and Culture, University of London, UK. |
12th July 2015: | ‘Every nation is closely watching us’: Expeditions as spectacles and the importance of prestige to Britain’s imperial expansion, 1867-74.Paper presented at the International Symposium on Imperial Expansion and Globalization, Peking University, Beijing, China |
21st January 2015: | ‘The barbarity of the country was somewhat relieved’: Notions of technology, space, and dominance in the British Abyssinian and Ashanti Expeditions, 1868-1874.Paper presented at the Topology of Technology Research Group Seminar Series, Technischen Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany. |
30th July 2014: | ‘They say that it excited laughter rather than terror, among their men’: The British Professional Military Debate on Mitrailleurs, 1869-1875.Paper presented at the 9th Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology, part of the 41st International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) Symposium held in Brasov, Romania. |
29th April 2014: | ‘The fame of it sounded with loud reverberations’: Imperialism, Exhibition Culture, and British International Prestige, 1867-74.Paper presented at the 3nd annual Exeter PGR Humanities Conference, 2014, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK. |
31st March 2014: | He ‘believes thoroughly in “prestige” – as all foreigners do’: Disraeli’s politics, international exhibitions, and the development of British high imperial culture.Paper presented at at the Southampton GradNet Humanities Postgraduate Conference, 2014, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. |
1st May 2013: | 'African Fever Finds in British Pluck its Most Obstinate Opponent': Nature's challenges and the Victorian imagination in the Abyssinian and Ashanti expeditions.Paper presented at the 2nd annual Exeter PGR Humanities Conference, 2013, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK. |
15th March 2013: | 'The Dreary Pestilence-guarded Portal': Africa and the British imagination in the Abyssinian and Ashanti expeditions.Paper presented at at the Southampton GradNet Humanities Postgraduate Conference, 2013, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. |
1st May 2012: | Climate and Context: Foreign soldiers in the British Army and changing ideas of racial dominance.Paper presented at the 1st annual Exeter PGR Humanities Conference, 2012, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK. |
25th February 2011: | Out of Their Element: Changing notions of racial difference and foreign soldiers in the British Army.Paper presented at the 15th annual New Frontiers Graduate History Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada. |
13th March 2009: | The National Pulpit: Schilling's confessional hypothesis and the motives for the Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years War.Paper presented at the 6th annual McGill-Queen's Graduate Student Conference in History, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. |
21st February 2009: | Crossing the Gates of the Post: the civic status of the West Indian Regiments and legal heterogeneity in the 19th-century British Empire.Paper presented at the 13th annual New Frontiers Graduate History Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada. |